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LeakedSource Owner Quit Ashley Madison a Month Before 2015 Hack

Krebs on Security

[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] LeakedSource was advertised on a number of popular cybercrime forums as a service that could help hackers break into valuable or high-profile accounts.

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Cybercrime to cost over $10 Trillion by 2025

Security Boulevard

With cybercrime rising by 600% during the pandemic, businesses are more vulnerable than ever to the financial and reputational repercussions of cyberattacks. Costs of Cybercrime Global cybercrime costs are on the rise, increasing 15 per cent year over year, according to a 2021 cyberwarfare report by CyberSecurity Ventures.

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Bulletproof hosting founder imprisoned for helping cybercrime gangs

Bleeping Computer

34-year-old Russian Aleksandr Grichishkin, the founder of a bulletproof hosting service, was sentenced to 60 months in prison for allowing cybercrime gangs to use the platform in attacks targeting US financial institutions between 2008 to 2015. [.].

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Cybercrime gang FIN7 returned and was spotted delivering Clop ransomware

Security Affairs

FIN7 is a Russian criminal group (aka Carbanak ) that has been active since mid-2015, it focuses on restaurants, gambling, and hospitality industries in the US to harvest financial information that was used in attacks or sold in cybercrime marketplaces. They then use OpenSSH and Impacket to move laterally and deploy Clop ransomware.

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A Retrospective on the 2015 Ashley Madison Breach

Security Boulevard

But a recent review of AshleyMadison mentions across Russian cybercrime forums and far-right underground websites in the months leading up to the hack revealed some previously unreported details that may deserve further scrutiny. The post A Retrospective on the 2015 Ashley Madison Breach appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Cybercrime Statistics in 2019

Security Affairs

I’m preparing the slides for my next speech and I decided to create this post while searching for interesting cybercrime statistics in 2020. Cybercrime will cost as much as $6 trillion annually by 2021. The global expense for organizations to protect their systems from cybercrime attacks will continue to grow.

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Safer internet day – Cybercrime facts Infographic

Security Affairs

Dear readers, I decided to create a simple Infographic that shows Cybercrime facts in 2019, I’ve done it for Safer Internet Day 2020. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – cybercrime, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.